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Fast Forward Israel Fires Missile at Syria Amid Chaos
Israel fired a guided missile into Syria on Sunday in a potent “warning shot” after mortar fire from fighting between Syrian troops and rebels hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the second time in four days. Israel Radio said it was the first direct engagement of the Syrian military on the Golan since the countries’…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Denies Agreeing to Golan Withdrawal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a newspaper report on Friday that said he had agreed in principle to hand back land annexed from Syria as part of secret U.S.-mediated peace talks that broke off last year. Syria has long set a complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights as a condition for making peace with…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Agreed To Return Golan: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to give back the Golan Heights to Syria in 2010, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The daily quotes unnamed American sources as saying that in 2010 “Netanyahu agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan, to the shores of Lake Kinneret, in exchange for a peace agreement…
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Fast Forward Mortar Shells From Syria Hit Golan Heights
Mortar shells from fighting in Syria spilled over into Israel’s Golan Heights, with no injuries reported. Israeli reports said that the several shells landed in an open area close to 7 a.m. on Tuesday. The Syrian army is believed to have fired them, aiming at Syrian villages near the border. This is the first time…
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Opinion Dangers of Syria’s Downward Spiral
Of all of Syria’s neighbors, Israel is the least involved in the revolutionary events there, and wisely so. Turkey is arming and training an opposition army; Lebanon is the main avenue for smuggling weapons to the rebels; Jordan is sheltering refugees and may be supplying arms to the opposition; Iraqi Sunnis are helping Syria’s Sunni…
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The Schmooze The Druze Who Can’t Come Back
Crossposted from Haaretz The documentary “Shout,” screened at the Haifa International Film Festival, outlines the dilemmas facing young Druze from the Golan Heights who leave to study in Damascus and cannot return. Minarets slice the skyline and gray residential buildings stand among them. Uniformed police pass through the streets scrutinizing passersby. Two young men in…
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The Schmooze Berlin as Cultural Hot Spot for Israeli Jews
On first utterance, “Israeli Jews are flocking to Berlin” is a phrase that might draw more than one cocked eyebrow. But as Public Radio International’s “The World” reported last week, a thriving Israeli Jewish community — mostly young, creative types — has found newfangled appreciation in what was once the capital city of the Nazi…
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